TECH BILLIONAIRE ELON MUSK issues stark warning about Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Posted on by newzimbabwevision

Related Post

Elon Musk warns there could be ‘no stopping’ a super intelligent AI even if humans build in a kill switch
Musk reveals he was an early investor in DeepMind to stay on top of AI growth
 
He also says there would be ‘no stopping’ a centralized artificial intelligence
But, even if there was a ‘kill switch,’ he says AI would likely kill the holder first
 
Despite his own role in the advancement of artificial intelligence, Elon Musk has long warned that the technology built by humans could one day lead to our destruction.
 
And, the tech giant has now revealed he’s kept a ‘wary eye’ on the growth of AI for years as an investor in DeepMind, which was acquired by Google in 2014.
 
While humans may be able to stop a runaway algorithm, there would be ‘no stopping’ a large, centralized AI that calls the shots, Musk argues in a recent interview with Vanity Fair.
 
Despite his own role in the advancement of artificial intelligence, Elon Musk has long warned that the technology built by humans could one day lead to our destruction. And, the tech giant has revealed he¿s kept a ¿wary eye¿ on the growth of AI for years as an investor in DeepMind +2
Despite his own role in the advancement of artificial intelligence, Elon Musk has long warned that the technology built by humans could one day lead to our destruction. And, the tech giant has revealed he’s kept a ‘wary eye’ on the growth of AI for years as an investor in DeepMind
 
DO WE LIVE IN A SIMULATION?
Last summer, when asked at the Code Conference in southern California if the answer to the question of whether we are in a simulated computer game was ‘yes’, Elon Musk said the answer is ‘probably’.
 
Musk believes that computer game technology, particularly virtual reality, is already approaching a point that it is indistinguishable from reality.
 
‘If you assume any rate of improvement at all, then the games will become indistinguishable from reality, just indistinguishable,’ he said.
 
‘Even if the speed of those advancements dropped by 1000,
 
‘We are clearly on a trajectory to have games indistinguishable from reality, and there would be billions of there.
 
‘It would seem to follow that the odds that we’re in ‘base reality’ is one in billions’, Mr Musk said.
 
Investing in the AI research firm DeepMind was a way to stay on top of the expansion of artificial intelligence, the Tesla, SpaceX, and OpenAI boss explained to Vanity Fair.
 
‘It gave me more visibility into the rate at which things were improving, and I think they’re really improving at an accelerating rate, faster than people realize,’ Musk told Vanity Fair.
 
‘Mostly because in everyday life you don’t see robots walking around. Maybe your Roomba or something. But Roombas aren’t going to take over the world.’
 
Musk has long been a proponent for preparedness in the face of a potential AI doomsday.
 
In the past, he’s argued that humans and machines could merge to become an AI-human symbiote, effectively stamping out the possibility of an ‘evil dictator AI.’
 
The threat, he explains in the new interview, is not so much the possibility of ‘killer robots,’ but a more powerful, centralized artificial intelligence.
 
‘The thing about AI is that it’s not the robot; it’s the computer algorithm in the Net,’ Musk said.
 
‘So the robot would just be an end effector, just a series of sensors and actuators. AI is in the Net.
 
‘The important thing is that if we do get some sort of runaway algorithm, then the human AI collective can stop the runaway algorithm.
 
‘But if there’s large, centralized AI that decides, then there’s no stopping it.’
 
And, while many have discussed the possible creation of a ‘kill switch’ to prevent such disasters, Musk noted, ‘I’m not sure I’d want to be the one holding the kill switch for some superpowered AI, because you’d be the first thing it kills.’
 
Machines equipped with artificial intelligence are ever creeping into the workforce, and for humans, this could soon mean job displacement and a universal basic income, according to Elon Musk
 
Machines equipped with artificial intelligence are ever creeping into the workforce, and for humans, this could soon mean job displacement and a ‘universal basic income,’ according to Elon Musk
 
10 BIGGEST THREATS TO HUMANKIND
In a new article for Wired, researchers at Cambridge University’s Study of Existential Risk (CESR) have come up with a list of 10 threats that may some day trigger an apocalypse.
 
1 – Artificial intelligence
 
2 – Bio-hacking
 
3 – Killer robots
 
4 – Nuclear war
 
5 – Climate change
 
6 – Asteroid impact
 
7 – Loss of reality
 
8 – Food shortage
 
9 – Particle accelerator
 
10 – Tyrannical ruler
 
Just a few months ago, Musk explained in an interview with Y Combinator that the ‘best outcome’ between humankind and machines would be a collective lifestyle where ‘we are the AI.’
 
Musk likened the situation to the cooperation of the limbic system and the cortex in the human brain.
 
He explained that these two systems – the primitive brain that controls your instincts, and the ‘thinking part,’ respectively – work well together, and it would extremely unusual to find someone who wished to get rid of one of them.
 
Building off of this, he told Y Combinator, ‘I think if we can effectively merge with AI, like improving the neural link between the cortex and your digital extension of yourself, which already exists but just has a bandwidth issue, then effectively, you become an AI-human symbiote.’
 
This would also solve the ‘control problem,’ he went on to explain, as it could become so widespread that ‘anyone who wants it can have it.’
 
‘We don’t have to worry about some evil dictator AI,’ Musk told Y Combinator, ‘because we are the AI collectively.
 
‘That seems like the best outcome I can think of.’
 
In November, Elon Musk predicted that the rise of machines in the workplace could soon mean job displacement and a ‘universal basic income’ for humans.
 
The billionaire explained that our options may be limited in the future as automation becomes the norm, and this could even leave people with more time to enjoy their lives.
 
Musk said humans will eventually need to achieve symbiosis with ‘digital super-intelligence’ in order to cope with the advancing world – but, he warns doing this might be the toughest challenge of all. source Daily Mail

Leave a Comment